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... Cochabamba was founded as a market town. The chapter describes the history of the city’s growth, highlighting the emergence of the Cancha as the principal locus of commercial activity in the city. urbanization markets urban planning ...

... Chapter 1 uses the case of the Carrera family of Chile, based principally upon their voluminous correspondence, to demonstrate how both men and women worked through extended family networks to carry out political plans. From 1810 to 1814, they were among the principal leaders of the independence...

... Drugs were to the birth of the new Mexican state what gold was to the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe. In this chapter, the four contrasting types of “criminal-economy subregions” that are the principal spaces of articulation of the illicit transnational economy that now has Mexico...

... In this chapter, Bill Schwarz explores the “revolution in philosophy” represented by the Haitian Revolution. Schwarz is concerned principally with the question of how historical temporalities can be understood and what political consequences follow, and he asks, “what is the significance...

... The future of Third World studies requires a strategic mastery of the language and ideologies of the ruling class to engage and upend oppression. But self-determination also demands discourses and practices not of the master’s creation. If divide and rule is a principal strategy in the exercise...

... turning them inside out, as the narrator learns painfully from both other young boys and the school principal that his uncle’s effeminate ways are far outside social norms, especially in the realm of gendered divisions of labor. Chinese fiction effeminacy nonnormative labor ...

... Third World studies requires a strategic mastery of the language and ideologies of the ruling class to engage and transform oppression and exploitation. But liberation also requires discourses and practices not of the master’s creation. If divide and rule is a principal strategy in the exercise...

..., the principal theme of this chapter is to show how the archetype of “the Paulista Woman” imbued the female participants in the uprising with specific racial and class attributes and depoliticized women’s entrance into the public sphere. It also considers the limits of acceptable forms of participation for women...

... Taking on heartbreak, one of the principal themes of R&B music, Track 9.0 threads quotations from R&B songs about heartbreak throughout with the aim of enfleshing the supposedly abstract mechanical technology of the 808 drum machine through the conceptual lens of the generalized...

... as a political project, with particular attention to criticisms that are commonly aimed at youthful, queer, and nocturnal subcultures. An overview of the three main fieldwork sites then follows, including maps of the principal venues for each city. This is followed by a detailed discussion of fieldwork methods...

... The introduction acquaints the reader with the principal protagonists of this book, a group of IT workers from India who took short-term visas to work in Germany. It discusses the history of this migration program against the background of the guest worker program of the post–World War II era...

... This chapter explores bodily ramifications of multisite networked music, sometimes called telematics, in which improvisation serves a principal role. Drawing on interviews and musical analysis related to the 2010 networked concert titled “Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations,” and calling...

... was to replace art with an active, passionate engagement with everyday life. The SI initially pursued this goal through unitary urbanism and the construction of situations; these goals were later eclipsed by a rigorous critique of the spectacle as the principal obstacle to the realization of the Situationist...